Head first Servlets first example

Hey guys, im learning servlets and have decided to do it oldways - that is, with using javac as a compiler and creating folders and files manually instead of Netbeans or Idea doing it all for me and deploying the thing.

I've got Tomcat 7.0, it works, it displays localhost, i could login in the manager, my app is not there and i don't know how to deploy it, whether i should deploy it or it should just work.

Ch1Servlet.java

web.xml

I haven't really understood a thing about invoker but i have a feeling it's aight here, since i haven't embedded something right into GET or POST.

My directories' placement is as follows: \tomcatdir\webapps\ROOT\ch1\WEB-INF\classes\pk1
Ch1Servlet.class is a compiled class, it's in pk1 directory.
web.xml is as listed above and it's in WEB-INF directory.

I try to run the stuff as this: http://localhost:8080/ch1/Serv1
I get the error: The requested resource (/ch1/Serv1) is not available.

Why is that and how can i correct it? Thanks.

Sandro Cassandro wrote:my app is not there and i don't know how to deploy it, whether i should deploy it or it should just work.

Of course you need to deploy it. Tomcat can't just know anything about it. Easiest way is to create a war file and copy it to the webapps folder.

I haven't really understood a thing about invoker

The only thing you need to know about the invoker is that it is not to be used. Ever.

My directories' placement is as follows: \tomcatdir\webapps\ROOT\ch1\WEB-INF\classes\pk1

Wrong. You should never place anything under ROOT. That's the ROOT web app. you don't deploy by writing into another web app. You should either use a war file, or place your context root in webapps. Not ROOT.

Of course you need to deploy it.

Understood and done. It's in manager app list now, listed at path /ch1.

I've created WAR with contents of ch1, i've deployed it, it added META-INF dir inside, so i got two directories inside ch1 at webapps - META-INF and WEB-INF with web.xml and classes directory with my .class file inside its pk1.

Still, i get the same error trying http://localhost:8080/ch1/Serv1

UPD: My bad, haven't noticed it, it says in app manager that it's not running and when i try to start it, i get FAIL - Application at context path /ch1 could not be started.

Look in the logs for the failure information.

Ok, i've found a different web.xml and with that one my thing works. Here's the original one:

Here's the one i'm using right now and it works:

So the only thing that is different is encoding stuff, no actual tricky syntax? How could that be?

Sandro Cassandro wrote:So the only thing that is different is encoding stuff

That's the only difference you see?

And please, fix the indentation.

Fixed afaik and see.

Hate to say it, but yeah. The whole header part is like about encoding and schemas - they are kinda the same to me.
Don't know XML, though so I'm looking at that as at HTML - DTD stuff, then maybe meta, then maybe stylesheet or schema. But still, it's just like making the text fit another standart, nothing exactly ground-breaking here to me.

Care to enlighten dark corners of my knowledge-base, maybe?

Also, i understand that getting into jsp-servlets without any xml knowledge isn't very good, but i didn't really consider it being anything serious.

The latter specifies an entirely different version of the Servlet specification for the deployment descriptor. Apparently one that better matches the version of Tomcat you are using.